Racy ads making Super Bowl less appropriate for families, group says

Fox News ^ | February 06, 2012

[Sopater]

The NFL apologized today for rapper M.I.A.’s super inappropriate Super Bowl gesture. But her flashing of the middle finger during the halftime show wasn’t the only display that had a parents watchdog group up in arms last night.

This year’s commercials, which began airing at 6:30 pm, a time when millions of children could be tuning in, were racier and more sexually suggestive than ever, according to the Parents Television Council.

[Buckeye McFrog]

HOW TO FIX THE SUPERBOWL HALFTIME SHOW.

Take the Grambling Band, and the Southern University Band, and throw them both out there and let them go at it for half an hour.

“Nuff said!

[Scythian]

I think should have cut to the national debt clock running in times square for the full half time ...

[RoadTest]

The Superbowl’s appendages are getting like the depraved and evil Mardi Gras.

[Mr. Jeeves]

Yeah, nothing says "family entertainment" like a game played by hulking, tattooed, ghetto thugs who swear and spit and beat each other to a pulp every Sunday. If only it weren't for all that mind-warping sex on the commercials...why watching this kind of mayhem every Sunday is a American child's birthright, I tell ya! :)

[Sopater]

Was the Randall Terry ad that was supposed to be a very graphic pro-life ad ever shown?

I don't know... I don't know anthing about it. Maybe someone here can provide some info and perhaps a link to the ad.

[brytlea]

I find that much of American entertainment is now lowbrow. I think it’s aimed at 15 year old boys (I taught high school, I got so tired of their sense of humor all day and to have to watch it when I came home, no thank you). I don’t think there’s a single funny comedy on today, but clearly I’m in the minority. Lots of my friends tell me all the time I’m missing some mighty fine stuff.

[brytlea]

It would become important to them if people stopped watching. However that won’t happen because people either really do like those commercials (ask around, most people think they are hysterical and perfectly ok, only a prude which is the worst thing you can be would disagree) or they are not willing to miss a sporting event for any reason. It’s the Super Bowl for you know whose sake! Some things are really important!

[brytlea]

I gotta say, going by the ads on tv, most American men have a real problem.... Sad, huh?

[brytlea]

That would be horrifying!

[FourPeas]

I find that much of American entertainment is now lowbrow.

Agreed. I haven't watched a new sitcom/drama/action series in at least 10 years and I haven't missed it. Whenever I do see snippets of one, I'm reminded anew why I stopped watching.

[starlifter]

How about the women who compete to be cast in the advertising?

[the_devils_advocate_666]

My son and I spent the evening of the Superbowl in our back yard around a nice raging campfire. Several years back I pretty much quit watching TV and I don’t miss it at all.

[annieokie]

Would you hook up your child to do that? Not me.

We are becoming very numb to misbehavior, in the name of humor.

Yet, when there is some parent who could/has damaged or injured a child, we then say that parent ought to be hanged from a tree or such. Feigning how horrible that a parent could do such a thing.

Those same parents have been numbed to tolerance for anything over years by the bad behavior, anything goes, ads & programs on TV.

We have ads out, that have children kicking people in the shins, other people kicking men in the grion, is that FUNNY? Proper social behavior?

I for one have never had a CARL Jr's. hamburger, due to the obnoxious commercials of eating like pigs. Not good Social manners.

If we want to change America, we need to change what we approve of on TV. I'm tired of the Occupiers way of life.

I am sorry if you don't see it that way, but it is the truth and many parents see this, and my opinion.

[ArrogantBustard]

Would you hook up your child to do that?

< Sigh >

There's a difference between prudent and prudish.

[ItsOurTimeNow]

The new ‘Avengers’ trailer was about the only good thing I took away from the Super Bowl, and that includes the game itself.

[RainMan]

With the exception being the KIA commercial. Yes, there were plenty of bikini babes, but it was clever how they started with the woman’s fantasy of being carried off by a guy on the white horse, and then the guy getting the supercharged fantasy of the hot chicks and rock n roll, but then to break out of that fantasy to go take his wife back from the guy on the horse I thought was really good. It was actually PROMOTING marriage over lust. Mrs Rainman liked it too.

[Tax-chick]

Oh, that’s right ... there was a ball game. College basketball, again? I think I was napping with the babies for a while, and then I had supper and washed up or something.

[annieokie]

REAL LIFE vs CARTOONS....two differant things, and for some strange reason, I also knew I would hear from you once more with such a word as PRUDISH!. rofl

Prude it is then, I will wear it with pride, as I remember Civility, social graces, manners....hopefully one day you too may experience a glimpse of those virtures. It was truly a wonderful time to live, alas nevermore.

[brytlea]

Oh, I wasn’t clear. I meant the sheer number of Viagra and Cialis ads. If someone came from another planet they would think most men here were...well... Anyway.

[brytlea]

I’m sorry, as I said, I wasn’t clear. I didn’t watch the ads or the game, I came in from cooking dinner to watch Madonna and make fun of her and that’s it. I was responding to a comment about Viagra and Cialis ads. Sorry for any confusion.